Dana Cowie is a painter who lives in Owen Sound, Ontario with her husband and two daughters. She is an oil painter and focuses mainly on painting the Canadian landscape and her community. 

Dana spent 4 years of art college in Toronto, Canada majoring in drawing and painting in the mid 90’s.  Dana went on to work in public art galleries and as a fashion stylist. It wasn’t until a few years later, after she’d married and started a family, that she shifted focus to a full time career in painting.

Dana loves to paint movement and finds her job as an artist so exciting as she's always interested in learning more and growing her technique and practice. Her palette shifts depending on what she feels led to paint. It is always exciting for Dana to grow as an artist. She often experiments with new ideas she gets to push her paintings forward. 

As the years have gone by, Dana finds the simple life to be most fulfilling and likes to paint it as a subject. Whether it is a beautiful scene in small town Ontario or a breathtaking landscape she loves to paint and finds it is her favorite way to communicate her heart to the world. She prays that her paintings will touch people in a special way.